McCarthy faces new battle for passing House rules package
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Speaker McCarthy facing trouble uniting his party on a key vote tonight. |
| 0:06.6 | Here we go again. |
| 0:07.6 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.8 | The public can hold out, setting the tone this time from the establishment way, balking |
| 0:14.0 | over, finalizing the very roles that McCarthy conceded last week to hardliners to become |
| 0:18.6 | the House Speaker. |
| 0:19.6 | Is this constant drama the new normal? |
| 0:21.5 | Plus, President Biden's upcoming meeting with the president of Mexico after visiting the |
| 0:25.3 | border where critics say the true scope of the humanitarian crisis was hidden from his |
| 0:30.9 | view. |
| 0:31.9 | And former Apache pilot, Prince Harry, drop in bombs, accusing his stepmother of leaking |
| 0:37.5 | stories to help her own image, accusing British tabloids of radicalizing their readers with |
| 0:43.2 | lies in order to hurt his family. |
| 0:45.6 | What does the royal family have to say about all this? |
| 0:53.2 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and we start in our politics lead with the first test |
| 0:57.2 | of newly elected Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy in just a few hours. |
| 1:01.9 | The House is going to vote on its new rules package. |
| 1:05.0 | This will include one of the biggest concessions McCarthy made to the hardline rebels in order |
| 1:09.3 | to get the gaffle that one person motion to vacate rule. |
| 1:13.5 | This means just one member of Congress can now force a vote to remove McCarthy as Speaker. |
| 1:19.0 | McCarthy of course also made other significant concessions, including allowing more |
| 1:23.0 | freedom caucus members onto key committees that will decide what legislation will actually |
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